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L February 1960

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SUBJLSTs Heeting with Venyy Pe Lopeaat te Statler-hilton Hotel on
1 February 1960 from 1000 hours to 1539 hours.

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1, Those present were ..rs. Vidal FP/PA, @exander tunter)(Ji1Liams)
PP/EAD, Churles Penney (Twiss) »/P¥, and Ehflip Toomey) (Thompson) «H/L/PP.

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2. ir. (pez save a recort of his*@ontucts e Cuba after"Feceiving
nig. notes which yere broucsht up »° mr. Goel, nd given to Nr.{ Lopez
re Coomes hate GopeD saia that he hed given bioyrashical sketches of
Echevarria, Rasco, Laureano tatista, Martinez ¢raga, ituben de Leon and
Sanchez Arengo to the Station reoresentative. ie had alse tured over a

report of Martinez Fragn on the sims of the Recuverscion de la Hevolccion.

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3. Urs Goren) rerort was taped end a transerint will be forwaried
to UH by P?/Ph, 5

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h. Specific recow-endations nade ty fir. Gores kneludea having
Kerbert Matthews io to Havana and try to in@Iuence Castro, iatthezs
has a goed reputation throuchout the 25th ef July Movement and could
help in an approach to Castro, A visit br Ei Murrow to do a broadcast
on Cuba was also recoimended. M¥2 (Lopez) feels tiat Castro will be in
rover for a long time to co.e and that we shouli tr: to influence hin.
He is seriously 2ffocted by any dafections and these richt be enccvrsczed,
ew Castro can be hit by defections of overworked and countemnanded officials.
Two men who were mentioned as ripe for defection are mufo in Hacienda
and €epero in Comercio. as cpez also recanenied contact with radre
Alberto de Castro in Caracas. This padre was Scrrerly c‘idel's instructor.
When Fidel was in Caracas he was scolded by Fodre Castro whom Yidel
treated with great respect acuordins to 2esco. The Paare and Fide! spent
about one and one half hours alone together at this time. This priest
should be checked as a possible influence on Fidel, ‘fhe possibility of
a split between Fidel and Ranl should be exploited. Haul is cold ard
mean and tho fact that he is fidel's brother dees not carr: too mich

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